Monday, Feb 13, 2012 |
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Morning Session, Chair: Nick Gnedin (Fermilab)
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| 8:45am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP Permanent Member) |
Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8:55am |
Léon Koopmans (Kapteyn) |
Why We Are Here[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:00am |
Piero Madau (UCSC) |
Opening Remarks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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| 9:40am |
Steve Furlanetto (UCLA) |
An Overview of Cosmological Reionization[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:20am |
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Morning Break |
| 10:50am |
Andrew Bunker (Univ. Oxford) |
Star Forming Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am |
Michele Trenti (Univ. Colorado) |
The Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies Survey: Observations Meet Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:10pm |
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DISCUSSION |
| 12:30pm |
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Lunch Break |
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| 2:00pm |
Xiaohui Fan (Univ. Arizona) |
Surveys of the Most Distant Quasars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:40pm |
Christopher Pfrommer (H-ITS, Heidelberg) |
The Cosmological Implications of TeV Blazars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:20pm |
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Afternoon Break |
| 3:50pm |
Art Wolfe (UCSD) |
Metallicity and Kinematics of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems Out to z~5[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm |
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DISCUSSION |
| 4:50pm |
Presenters |
Poster Advertisements[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
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SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 |
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| 9:00am |
Pascal Oesch (UCSC) |
Uncovering the First Galaxies with HST: New Insights from Deep WFC3/IR Fields[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:40am |
Oleg Gnedin (Univ. Michigan) |
Some Recent Developments in Cosmic Studies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:20am |
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Morning Break |
| 10:50am |
Massimo Ricotti (Univ. Maryland) |
Fossils of the First Galaxies, Ghost Halos, and the Missing Massive/Bright Satellites Problem[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am |
Anna Frebel (Harvard, CfA) |
Extremely Metal-poor Stars in the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies and Their Relation to the First Galaxies[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:10pm |
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DISCUSSION |
| 12:30pm |
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Lunch Break |
| 2:00pm |
John Wise (Georgia Tech) |
The Transition from the First stars to the First galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:40pm |
Naoki Yoshida (IPMU) |
Primordial Star Formation: Physics, Simulations, and Prospects for Observations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:20pm |
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Afternoon Break |
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| 3:50pm |
Andrew Pontzen (Univ. Oxford) |
Erasing Dark Matter Central Cusps with Supernova Feedback[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm |
Tomasso Treu (UCSB) |
The Cosmic Evolution of Faint Satellites as a Test of Cold and Warm Dark Matter Models of Galaxy Formation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:10pm |
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DISCUSSION |
| 5:30pm |
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RECEPTION |
| 6:00pm |
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SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
| 8:00pm |
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SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012 |
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| 9:00am |
Amina Helmi (Kapteyn) |
Dwarf Galaxies: Probes of Cosmology on Small Scales[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:40am |
Andrey Kravtsov (Univ. Chicago) |
Towards Understanding Star Formation - Feedback Loop in Dwarf Galaxy\tFormation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:20am |
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Morning Break |
| 10:50am |
Ewa Lokas (Copernicus Center) |
Formation of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies via Tidal Stirring and Mergers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am |
Josh Simon (Carnegie Obs.) |
Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Least Evolved Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:10pm |
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DISCUSSION |
| 12:30pm |
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Lunch Break |
| 2:00pm |
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FREE AFTERNOON |
Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 |
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| 9:00am |
Beth Willman (Haverford College) |
What Is a (Ultra-faint Dwarf) Galaxy?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:40am |
Vasily Belokurov (Univ. Cambridge) |
The Faintest of the Milky Way Satellites[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:20am |
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Morning Break |
| 10:40am |
Evan Kirby (Caltech) |
Metal Outflows from Dwarf Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am |
Laura Sales (MPI) |
Infalling Together: Faint and Dark Companions of Dwarf Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:10pm |
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DISCUSSION |
| 12:30pm |
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Lunch Break |
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| 2:00pm |
Michael Kuhlen (UC Berkeley) |
CDM Substructure: Clumps, Streams, and Debris Flows[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:40pm |
Anatoly Klypin (NMSU) |
Velocity Function of Galaxies in the Local Volume[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:20pm |
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Afternoon Break |
| 3:50pm |
Carlos Frenk (Durham Univ.) |
The Satellites of the Milky Way and the Nature of the Dark Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm |
Michael Boylan-Kolchin (UC Irvine) |
The Puzzling Darkness of Massive Milky Way Subhalos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:10pm |
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DISCUSSION |
| 5:30pm |
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RECEPTION |
| 6:00pm |
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SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
| 8:00pm |
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SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
Friday, Feb 17, 2012 |
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| 9:00am |
Matthias Steinmetz (AIP, Potsdam) |
Substructure and Asymmetries in the Milky Way[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:40am |
Connie Rockosi (UCSC) |
Accretion Relics in the Galactic Halo: Near and Far, Present and Future[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:20am |
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Morning Break |
| 10:50am |
Kathryn Johnston (Columbia Univ.) |
Reading the Elements[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am |
Louis Strigari (Stanford Univ.) |
Making Heads or Tails of Dark Matter Detection Results[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
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Lunch Break |
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| 2:00pm |
Chuck Keeton (Rutgers) |
Probing Dark Matter Substructure with Quasar Lensing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:40pm |
Simona Vegetti (MIT) |
Mass Substructure in Gravitational Lens Galaxies - First Constraints on the Mass Function Beyond the Local Universe[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:20pm |
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Afternoon Break |
| 3:50pm |
Eric Tollerud (UC Irvine) |
Small-Scale Structure in the SDSS and LCDM[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm |
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DISCUSSION |
Saw Closing Remarks
| 4:50pm |
Richard Ellis (Caltech) |
Closing Remarks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
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SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Joshua Adams (Carnegie Obs.) |
The Central Dark Matter Distribution of NGC 2976[Poster] |
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Antonio Aparicio (IAC) |
IAC-POP: Finding the Star Formation History of Resolved Galaxies[Poster] |
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Jacob Arnold (UCSC, UCO) |
Chemo-dynamics of Accretion Beyond the Local Group |
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Jeremy Bailin (Univ. of Michigan) |
Stellar Halos of Galaxies Beyond the Local Group[Poster] |
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J. Bland-Hawthorn (Univ. of Sydney) et al. |
A New Model of Local Group dwarfs. II. Episodic Star Formation |
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Ana Bonaca (Yale) et al. |
A New Milky Way Stellar Stream in the Direction of Andromeda |
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Maarten Breddels (Kaptyen Astro. Inst.) |
Schwarzschild Models of dSph Galaxies |
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Jun-Hwan Choi (Univ. of Kentucky) |
Properties of Very High-z Galaxies[Poster] |
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Jun-Hwan Choi (Univ. of Kentucky) |
Early Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) from a Direct Collapse[Poster] |
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Lauren Corlies (Columbia Univ.) |
Chemical Abundance Patterns and the Early Environment of Dwarf Galaxies |
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Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Univ BC) et al. |
Old Physics, New Tricks, and the Theory of Atomic Dark Matter[Poster] |
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Mariano J. Dominguez R. (Univ. Cordoba) |
Properties of Satellite Galaxies in the SDSS Photometric Survey: Luminosities, Colours and Projected Number Density Profiles |
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Denis Erkal (Univ. of Chicago) |
On the Origin of the High Column Density Turnover in the HI Column Density Distribution |
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Ross Fadely (Haverford) |
Challenges in Finding the Milky Way's Faintest Companions: Star-Galaxy Separation |
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Ross Fadely (Haverford) |
Characterization of the Satellite Population Around a Lens Galaxy at z = 0.46 |
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Chris Fassnacht (UC Davis) |
A SHARP-eyed Search for Substructure around Distant Galaxies |
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Ignacio Gargiulo (IALP) et al. |
Alpha-element Abundances in a LCDM Universe |
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Alexei Golovanov (MSU) et al. |
The Strange Behavior of The Massive Space Objects[Poster] |
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Sebastian Luis Hidalgo (IAC) |
Isolated Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group: Searching for UV-background Iimprint in the Star Formation History[Poster] |
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Ayuki Kamada (Univ. of Tokyo) |
Structure Formation in Cosmological Models with Nonthermally Produced Warm Dark Matter and with Decaying Charged Massive Particles |
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Torgny Karlsson (Uppsala Univ.) |
The Chemical Signature of a Relic Star Cluster in the Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Implications for Cosmology |
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Duane Lee (Columbia Univ.) |
Progenitors of Ultra-Faint Dwarfs and the Milky Way Halo: Constraints from the Distributions of Neutron-Capture Elements |
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Sarah Loebman (Univ. of Washington) |
The Origin of Chemical Trends in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies |
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Mikhail Medvedev (Univ. Kansas) |
Cosmological Simulations Evidence in Favor of Two-Component Flavor-Mixed Cold Dark Matter |
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Matthew Nichols (Univ. of Sydney) et al. |
A New Model of Local Group Dwarfs. I. Gas depletion |
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Pascal Oesch (UCSC, UCO) |
The z~10 Universe Explored with HST |
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Annalisa Pillepich (UCSC, UCO) |
Eris vs Dark Eris: The Effects of Baryons on Dark-Matter Haloes with SPH |
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Valery Rashkov (UCSC) |
Testing the "Common Mass Scale" of Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Satellites |
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Aaron J Romanowsky (UCSC, UCO) |
Dwarfs, Reionization, and Accretion Around Giant Ellipticals |
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Tjitske Starkenburg (Kaptyen Astro. Inst) |
Interactions Between Dwarf Galaxies and Dark Satellites[Poster] |
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James Taylor (Univ. of Waterloo) et al. |
Can We Find Faint Dwarfs in Other Groups? |
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Ugur Ural (AIP) |
Constraining the Masses of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies[Poster] |
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Luis C. Vargas (Yale) et al. |
Distribution of Alpha Elements in Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies[Poster] |
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Carlos A. Vera (Kaptyen Astro. Inst.) |
Not Too Big, Not Too Small: the Dark Halos of the Dwarf Spheroidals in the Milky Way[Poster] |
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Laura Watkins (MPIA Heidelberg) |
Discrete Dynamical Modelling of Local Group Stellar Systems[Poster] |
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Stephen Wilkins (Univ. of Oxford) |
The UV Properties of Star Forming Galaxies |
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Beth Willman (Haverford) |
Searching for MW Dwarfs in RCS2/CFHTLS Survey Data |
